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PlayStation RPGs: “King’s Field” (1994) – From Software

I have a treat for you, another new section that no one will ever read in their entire lives. I will play some PlayStation 1 RPGs and write a bit about them whenever I finish them or get tired of them because I’m too bad at them. In fact, I already started something similar in my earlier blog, but with every game of the console and that prooved to be… impossible, so now I’m sticking to the RPGs made for the PlayStation (and PlayStation 2 soon enough). As I said, I already started something similar in my blog, and so I already wrote about this RPG, so I’m translating this entry to english for your reading pleasure. The original one can be read here.

With a lot of hope I started playing the version that I got for this videogame. Big was my surprise when I realized that during those days I was just playing the game ‘King’s Field II’, which was called ‘King’s Field’ in United States, due to the fact that the first one was never released there, as it ocurred with some Final Fantasy (those I’ve always known with their original numerical names). That’s why I felt so much anger that I had to go back and have to get this game again and so be able to write briefly about it.

Before that, I was ready to give a negative report, on how the game (King’s Field II) seemed to insist in being enormously difficult and forbiding me to kill any enemy, being the principal blame a extremely stiff control and a doubt as to wether I was killing the enemies or not (finally I was able to defeat only one of them, and it took me about 10 minutes to do so). For the most part I died, and I had to start all over again. Now that I play the original game, I can tell you that now I know why this happened.

This is a classic RPG, and in some way similar to another forgotten PlayStation game, ‘Crime Crackers’ an RPG shooter of sorts (that won’t be reviewed here) with Doom elements. This is a dungeon crawler, we begin in a dungeon and we have to travel through paths and labyrinthic passageways, fighting at the best of our strengths against mythological monsters, while our only companions are corpses lying in the ground and scaredy-cat armored knights. Here you can watch a walkthrough of the game:

But after being killed twice by the same monster I realized that the controls are still quite slow and not responsive for me to be able to play it for fun and joy. Nevertheless, it’s entertaining while you watch it, it’s just way too frustrating. I guess you can have some fun watching someone else play it, like in the video above.

Amicus Productions: Horror-Scifi

Dr. Terror's House of Horrors (1965)
The Skull (1965)
Dr. Who and the Daleks (1965)
The Psychopath (1966)
Dalek's Invasion Earth: 2150 A.D. (1966)
The Terrornauts (1967)
The Deadly Bees (1967)
They Came from Beyond Space (1967)
Torture Garden (1967)
The Mind of Mr. Soames (1970)
The House That Dripped Blood (1971)
I, Monster (1971)
Tales from the Crypt (1972)
What Became of Jack and Jill? (1972)Asylum (1972)
The Vault of Horror (1973)-- And Now the Screaming Starts! (1973)
From Beyond the Grave (1974)
Madhouse (1974)
The Beast Must Die (1974)
The Land That Time Forgot (1975)
At the Earth's Core (1976)
The People That Time Forgot (1977)
The Monster Club (1981)

Hammer Pictures: Horror-Fantasy-Sci Fi

The Mystery of the Marie Celeste (1935)
Man in Black (1949)
Dick Barton Strikes Back (1949)
Dick Barton at Bay (1950)
Four Sided Triangle (1953)
Spaceways (1953)
The Quatermass Xperiment (1955)
X: The Unknown (1956)The Curse of Frankenstein (1957)
Quatermass 2 (1957)
The Abominable Snowman (1957)
Tales of Frankenstein (1958)Dracula (1958)The Revenge of Frankenstein (1958)
The Hound of the Baskervilles (1959)
The Man Who Could Cheat Death (1959)
The Mummy (1959)
The Stranglers of Bombay (1960)The Brides of Dracula (1960)
The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll (1960)
The Terror of the Tongs (1961)
Taste of Fear (1961)
The Curse of the Werewolf (1961)
Shadow of the Cat (1961)
Captain Clegg (1962)
The Phantom of the Opera (1962)
Paranoiac (1963)
The Damned (1963)
Maniac (1963)
The Kiss of the Vampire (1963)
The Old Dark House (1963)
Nightmare (1964)
The Evil of Frankenstein (1964)
The Gorgon (1964)
The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb (1964)
Fanatic (1965)
She (1965)
The Nanny (1965)
The Plague of the Zombies (1966)Dracula: Prince of Darkness (1966)
The Reptile (1966)
Rasputin: The Mad Monk (1966)
The Witches (1966)
One Million Years B.C. (1966)
Slave Girls (1967)
The Mummy's Shroud (1967)
Frankenstein Created Woman (1967)
Quatermass and the Pit (1967)
Journey to Midnight (1968)
Journey into Darkness (1968)
The Vengeance of She (1968)
The Lost Continent (1968)
The Devil Rides Out (1968)
"Journey to the Unknown" (1968)Dracula Has Risen from the Grave (1968)
Frankenstein Must be Destroyed (1969)
Moon Zero Two (1969)Taste the Blood of Dracula (1970)
Crescendo (1970)
The Vampire Lovers (1970)
When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth (1970)
The Horror of Frankenstein (1970)Scars of Dracula (1970)
Lust for a Vampire (1971)
Countess Dracula (1971)
Creatures the World Forgot (1971)
Twins of Evil (1971)
Blood from the Mummy's Tomb (1971)
Hands of the Ripper (1971)
Dr Jekyll & Sister Hyde (1971)
Vampire Circus (1972)Dracula A.D. 1972 (1972)
Straight on Till Morning (1972)
Fear in the Night (1972)
Demons of the Mind (1972)The Satanic Rites of Dracula (1973)
Captain Kronos - Vampire Hunter (1974)
Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell (1974)The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires (1974)
To the Devil a Daughter (1976)
"Hammer House of Horror" (1980)
"Hammer House of Mystery and Suspense" (1984)
Flesh and Blood: The Hammer Heritage of Horror (1984)
Beyond the Rave (2008)
Let Me In (2010)The Resident (2011)